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Plain text of Numbers 26

26:1 that the Lord spake to Mosheh and to Elazar bar Aharon the priest, saying:

26:2 Take the account of all the congregation of the sons of Israel, from a son of twenty years and upwards by the house of their fathers, everyone that goeth out with the host in Israel.

26:3 And Mosheh and Elazar the priest spake with them, and directed to number them in the plains of Moab, by the Jordan (over against) Jericho, saying:

26:4 From a son of twenty years and upward, as the Lord commanded Mosheh, and the sons of Israel who went forth from the land of Mizraim.

26:5 Reuben, the first-born of Israel: the sons of Reuben, Hanok, the family of Hanok; Phallu, and the family of Phallu;

26:6 of Hezron, the family of Hezron; of Karmi, the family of Karmi.

26:7 These are the families of Reuben, and they who were numbered of them were forty-three thousand seven hundred and thirty.

26:8 And of the sons of Phallu, Eliab;

26:9 And the sons of Eliab, Nemuel, and Dathan, and Abiram: these are Dathan and Abiram who called the congregation that gathered against Mosheh and Aharon in the congregation of Korach, in their gathering against the Lord,

26:10 when the earth opened her mouth and swallowed them with Korach, and the congregation died, being devoured by the fire, two hundred and fifty men; and they became a sign;

26:11 but the sons of Korach died not.

26:12 The sons of Shimeon by their families: of Nemuel, the family of Nemuel; of Jamin, the family of Jamin;

26:13 of Zerach, the family of Zerach; of Shaul, the family of Shaul.

26:14 These are the families of Shemeon, twenty-two thousand two hundred.

26:15 The sons of Gad after their families; of Zephon, the family of Zephon; of Haggi, the family of Haggi; of Shumi, the family of Shumi; of Aggi, the family of Aggi;

26:16 Of Ozni, the family of Ozni; of Heri, the family of Heri;

26:17 of Arod, the family of the Arodi of Areli, the family of Areli.

26:18 These are the families of the Beni Gad, the number of whom was forty thousand five hundred.

26:19 Of the sons of Jehudah, Her and Onan: but Her and Onan died in the land of Kenaan;

26:20 Of the sons of Jehudah after their families: of Shelah, the family of Shelah; of Pherez, the family of Pherez; of Zerach, the family of Zerach.

26:21 Of the sons of Pherez: of Hezron, the family of Hezron; of Hamul, the family of Hamul.

26:22 These are the families of Jehudah; the number of them seventy-six thousand five hundred.

26:23 The sons of Issakar by their families: Tola, the family of Tola; of Phua, the family of the Phuni;

26:24 Of Jasub, the family of Jasub; of Shimron, the family of Shimron.

26:25 These are the families of Issakar; their number sixty-four thousand three hundred.

26:26 The sons of Zebulon by their families: of Sared, the family of Sared; of Elon, the family of Elon; of Jahleel, the family of Jahleel.

26:27 These are the families of Zebulon, by their number sixty thousand five hundred.

26:28 The sons of Joseph by their families, Menasheh and Ephraim,

26:29 The sons of Menasheh: of Makir, the family of Makir; and Makir begat Gilead; of Gilead, the family of Gilead.

26:30 These are the children of Gilead: of Jezar, the family of Jezar; of Helek, the family of Helek;

26:31 And of Asriel, the family of Asrieli; and of Shekem, the family of Shekem;

26:32 And of Shemida, the family of Shemida; and of Hepher, the family of Hepher.

26:33 And Zelophechad bar Hepher had no sons, but daughters; and the names of the daughters of Zelophechad were Mahali, and Nohah, Hegelah, Milchah, and Thirzah.

26:34 These are the families of Menasheh, and their number fifty-two thousand seven hundred.

26:35 These are the sons of Ephraim by their families: of Shuthelah, the family of Shuthelah; of Bekir, the family of Bekir; of Tachan, the family of Tachan.

26:36 And these are the sons of Shuthelah: of Heran, the family of Heran.

26:37 These are the families of the Beni-Ephraim, the number of whom was thirty-two thousand five hundred. These are the sons of Joseph by their families.

26:38 The sons of Benjamin by their families: of Bela, the family of Bela; of Ashbal, the family of Ashbal; of Ahiram, the family of Ahiram;

26:39 Of Shefuphim, the family of Shefuphim; of Hupham, the family of Hupham.

26:40 And the sons of Bela, Arede and Naaman; the family of the Aredi; and of Naaman, the family of Naaman.

26:41 These are the sons of Benjamin after their families, and their number forty-five thousand six hundred.

26:42 These are the children of Dan, after their families: of Shuham, the families of Shuham. These are the families of Dan after their families,

26:43 And the number of the families of Shuham sixty-four thousand four hundred.

26:44 The sons of Asher, after their families: of Jimna, the families of Jimna; of Jeshvi, the families of Jeshvi; of Beriah, the family of Beriah.

26:45 Of the sons of Beriah: of Heber, the family of Heber; of Malkiel, the family of Malkiel.

26:46 But the name of the daughter of Asher was Sarach.

26:47 These are the families of the Beni Asher, by their number fifty-three thousand four hundred.

26:48 The sons of Naphtali, after their families: of Jahziel, the families of Jahziel; of Gunni, the families of Gunni;

26:49 of Jezer, the family of Jezer; of Shelem, the family of Shelem.

26:50 These are the families of Naphtali by their families, and their number forty-five thousand four hundred.

26:51 These were the numbered of the sons of Israel, six hundred and one thousand seven hundred and thirty.

26:52 And the Lord spake with Mosheh, saying:

26:53 Unto these thou shalt divide the land for a possession, according to the number of their names.

26:54 To the many thou shalt make large their possession, and to the few thou shalt make their possession small; to each according to his number shalt thou give his inheritance.

26:55 Nevertheless the land shall be divided by lot, according to the names of the tribes of their fathers they shall inherit.

26:56 By the lot shall their inheritance be divided among the many and the few.

26:57 And these are the sons of Levi, after their families: of Gershon, the families of Gershon; of Kehath, the family of Kehath; of Merari, the families of Merari.

26:58 These are the families of Levi: the family of Libni, the family of Hebron, the family of Machli, the family off Mushi, the family of Korach And Kehath begat Amram.

26:59 And the name of Amram’s wife was Jokebed, a daughter of Levi, who was born to Levi, in Mizraim; and she bare unto Amram Aharon, and Mosheh, and Miriam their sister.

26:60 And unto Aharon were born Nadab and Abihu, Elazar and Ithamar.

26:61 But Nadab and Abihu died in their offering strange fire before the Lord.

26:62 And the numbered of them were twenty-three thousand of all the males from a month old and upwards: for they were not numbered among the children of Israel, because no possession was given to them among the children of Israel.

26:63 These (are they whom) Mosheh and Elazar the priest numbered of the sons of Israel, in the plains of Moab, by Jordan, (over against) Jericho.

26:64 But among these there was not a man of them whom Mosheh and Aharon the priest numbered when they counted the children of Israel in the wilderness of Sinai.

26:65 For the Lord had said to them that dying they should die in the wilderness; and not a man of them remained, except Kaleb bar Jephuneh and Jehoshua bar Nun.